As I live in New York City, and fly everywhere else, I don't have that advantage. Most people I know who have a productive relationship with audiobooks listen on long commutes or in the car on vacation. Walter Mosley I also fall asleep listening to recorded books. (My main complaint about audiobooks is that I tend to doze off listening to them, so either have to re-listen at length to get to the right place, or obtain a text to expedite the process: I think an electronic version of the written text should be a mandatory adjunct to audiobooks.) Have your works been or are you interested or worried to have them marketed via Kindle, as audiobooks, the new Google Books deal, or other means? Personally, I still buy books but am increasingly reading e-books and listening to audiobooks. Six Easy Pieces is much more like the hybrid novel-in-stories: a piece is missing and Easy, though he may not be fully aware of it, is searching it out.Īlbin Forone from Canada I'm interested in how writers are reacting to the new online and electronic methods of merchandising their work. Some detective stories need a larger canvas because the plot includes many stories and cannot be confined to a smaller space. Noir is a mood that can be captured in a simple description. Walter Mosley I think Raymond Chandler's short stories were brilliant, also many of Hammett's Continental Op stories. Do you agree? How would you defend the short and what would you say are its strengths? But is the novel a better form for the genre than the short story? For other genres, I prefer short fiction, but it seems like the novel really allows the noir/detective genre's best features to shine. since the early part of the decade and I'm looking forward to reading the last couple novels in the series. Six Easy Pieces is a collection of short stories featuring Easy Rawlins] At the most basic level, I loved following Easy around again.
Max Arambulo, Toronto I just finished reading Those points made, working and raising children takes up a lot of physical, and creative, energy. I never question or try to define inspiration – I just return to the well every morning. It is something inside us called out by our daily devotion to the art. I think the ancient Greeks (and probably others) had it right when they said that art in humans comes from the muses. This meant that I didn't give the absolute best to my job but I did well enough. I found that waking up early, very early, in the morning and doing my work then, before anyone else was up, captured the best part of my creative energies. Walter Mosley When I was working full-time and writing I produced two novels,ĭevil in a Blue Dress.
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